Apparently, the AMV contest screening has been canceled due to pressure from ASCAP. What their interest in AMVs is would be anyone's guess.

Anyway, the judges will decide the winners, who will be announced after DC...hopefully.

If this is true, then that's a real shame. Source?

I went to the DC web site link provided on this thread and tried to find a list of finalists there. I saw nothing in the news or on the updates but followed the "blog" link, which led to a LiveJournal. The announcement was placed there several days ago, although I don't know how anyone would have noticed it.

Honestly, this convention is already overtaxed without trying to host a AMV contest which (as I hear) few people even get to see because of bad scheduling. The anime track there is probably going to be crushed by everything else on the schedule (especially the autograph sessions and such).

I'd never attend DC anyway. From what I've heard, attendance is ridiculously overcrowded, the programming schedule is overwrought, and the event (when you factor in all expenses) is insanely expensive if you come from out of town.

deuceloosely wrote:Apparently, the AMV contest screening has been canceled due to pressure from ASCAP.

From what I remember, the AMV contest was canceled last year. Then it was uncanceled, but the director lost the room the contest was originally suppose to run in (something about a battle between stormtroopers and klingons). So the director had to show it in the small anime video room.

So, they might get uncanceled, again. It would be best to wait on an official announcement

deuceloosely also wrote:What [ASCAP's] interest in AMVs is would be anyone's guess.

Their interest are simliar to the MPAA and RIAA. They have sued before.

Haven't been in years, and was almost completely frightened away from cons altogether by my last go around. AWA is hands down the con of choice in Atlanta.

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My format for the contest is to show the top four from each category from #4 to #1 and once I am done showing those I show videos from any creators in the audience. I love doing the contest and this one was the best one yet.

Thank you all for participating and we will be mailing stuff to the top three soon. However I have a real life with a real mortgage outside of DragonCon and it sometimes ties me up. Please forgive my delay.

As for all the comments above...I have hosted the contest for three years now and it has never been cancelled. There was a mix-up with the rooms last year so we moved it to Anime video rooms. Since I run those it was no big deal.

Now....Ghet....If I didn't actually know you in real life I might have taken the time to get offended but then I decided to just consider the source